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Report probably wont be done until, say, march or so, early march, early to mid march. thats just a guess. if he is confirmed, he would be in the office before that. couple of other things that are in this prepared statement. he talks about this law review type memo that he wrote about obstruction of justice, criticizing one component of the mueller investigation. he said, i support the special counsels core investigation into russian inter feerference. i didnt mean a president couldnt obstruct ...

Justice could simply be information thats in a report by special counsel to the congress for potential impeachment proceedings. and youre seeing a lot of signaling in advance that they dont think there is anything there. that is important. this will largely be a political process. and the trump team is working every day, the political angle for the midterm elections to have this as an issue and for whatever happens in congress. >> they are basing legal claims that are just not settled law. and t...

Threatening im above approach, above the law and sending messages i can pardon anybody i want to at any time, including myself if need be. so we are heading into a constitutional crisis when the mueller report eventually comes forward with its findings. it look like there will be obstruction of justice charges. donald trump will say there is no such thing. the president cant obstruction. >> when you say he charges that suggests there will be something legally filed here. thats what we dont know....

His lawyer lied repeatedly to the american people. unless the president flat-out lied to him, which is possible someone is lying there. i said forget for a moment it is about this meeting. this is dishonesty about something that is crucial to the entire investigation. the trump tower meeting where they were promised dirt on hillary clinton. they are telling lies about that crucial meeting. >> right. if youre a special prosecutor looking into this, you would like to question the president about t...

In there. you say, look, bill clinton got more popular as he went through the whole process. and the democrats will drag it out for a year or more. unless democrats could get the senate and congress, it will be hard to get rid of donald trump. however, donald trump jr. very well might get indicted. >> and he could be pardoned. there is press department for that. >> this is a full-out war. a ne-yo civil war going on in this country. but this will come to a head at some point. it will be a big arg...

Gregory. the president could kill somebody, cant possibly be on instruct justice and sell pardon without going blind. are this on full legal footing here? >> well, first of all, i have to say i think rudy guilianis statement is really reckless, is really irresponsible to put out into the public sphere. but the arguments theyre making have to be looked through the lens of they are making these publicly. and the memo that was drafted was drafted many months ago. these were arguments made to specia...

Nixon was forced from office because he was going to be impeached from office because of watergate. in 1998, bill clinton was impeached due to the monica lewinsky investigation. it is not only wrong by historical framer standards but congresses in our lifetime have recognized presidents can obstruct justice. >> they are distracting it by making the argument about indictments or not. that is not the issue here. >> mueller has more or less indicated that he would be bound by policy which currently...